The scars left on American travelers who were robbed, beaten and whipped by Peruvian villagers

A Wyoming woman who was one of three American travelers robbed, beaten and whipped by Peruvian villagers has revealed that Peruvian police and U.S. Embassy staffers didn't begin to help them until news media began publicizing their harrowing story.

Jennifer Wolfrom, who is now safely back in her hometown of Jackson Hole, showed off stitches on her head - a remaining wound from the near-death experience on January 1.

She said Peruvian authorities don't want to get to the bottom of what happened in the mountain village outside Cuzco, Peru, where 30 villagers assaulted her, along with her brother Jed Wolfrom and his wife Meghan Doherty.

Scars: Jennifer Wolfrom shows off the stitches in her head she received after being pelted by rocks by angry Peruvian villagers

'Obviously we are all very upset by this and are unwilling to let the Peruvian police sweep this under the rug now that we are out of the country,' Ms Wolfrom told the Jackson Hole News and Guide.

'We are doing what we can to ensure that this case does not get dropped. However the police in Ocongate (the district where the attack occurred) are not taking this seriously and seem to believe that the village’s alleged assumption that we were "cattle rustlers" justifies the violent attack that occurred.'

Jed Wolfrom and Meghan Doherty are still in South America, continuing their travels despite injuries that knocked out Jed's teeth and left them rattled for weeks.